[OH-announce] OpenHatch newsletter, October 2013

[Mike Linksvayer]

Welcome to OpenHatch [0]newsletter number 15.

   For Ada Lovelace Day, we [1]profiled 5 of the women who have helped us
   organize and run our Open Source Comes to Campus (OSCTC) events.

   Reports on two recent OSCTC events: [2]Indiana University and [3]Purdue
   University, and another excellent [4]Infrequently Asked Questions about
   open source post based on actual discussion with students at the
   Indiana University event.

   [5]Photos from several OSCTC events.

   We have lots of OSCTC materials in a [6]git repository. Report or help
   resolve an OSCTC [7]issue.

New projects in the OpenHatch volunteer opportunity finder

     * [8]arkOS, "a project to help users self-host their websites, email,
       files and more".
     * [9]Navit, "a crossplatform and modular opensource navigation
       system, using OpenStreetMap for offline routing".

Behind the scenes

   We held a release planning meeting on October 8 on IRC, and we followed
   that up with a new idea: holding "office hours", a scheduled informal
   check-in on IRC once a week so that multiple contributors are likely to
   be online at the same time. This was fun, and it turned out to be a
   good chance for potential new contributors to talk about their ideas
   and ask questions. We'll keep announcing these meetings on the
   [10]devel mailing list for anyone interested.

OpenHatchy but not OpenHatch things around the web

   Thoughtful post by Kaia Dekker on the [11]XOXO conference and
   diversity, including a "wishlist of eleven men of color and women that
   I would love to see at XOXO next year, or really, see at any
   tech/arts/maker conference I go to." We're tickled to read the first
   name on that list:

     Asheesh Laroia is a coder and co-founder of Open Hatch, an
     organization that helps people learn to create and contribute to
     open source and collaborative software projects.

   Dale Harvey on [12]problems getting started in open source.

   Also check out links submitted to [13]/r/openhatch, and add your finds!

Get involved

   You can help write this newsletter! The November newsletter will be
   edited at [14]htmlpad may be [15]previewed there as well. Join our
   [16]publicity list or hop on #openhatch with suggestions and questions.

   Thanks to Britta Gustafson for contributing to this edition!

   [17]Read previous newsletters.

   [18]Like [19]+1, follow @openhatch at [20]identi.ca or [21]Twitter.

References

   0. https://openhatch.org/blog/2013/newsletter-october-2013/
   1. http://openhatch.org/blog/2013/five-women-bringing-open-source-to-campus-for-ada-lovelace-day-2013/
   2. http://openhatch.org/blog/2013/teaching-open-source-at-indiana-university-bloomington/
   3. http://openhatch.org/blog/2013/teaching-open-source-at-purdue-university/
   4. http://openhatch.org/blog/2013/infrequently-asked-questions-bloomington/
   5. https://secure.flickr.com/photos/paulproteus/sets/
   6. https://github.com/openhatch/open-source-comes-to-campus
   7. https://github.com/openhatch/open-source-comes-to-campus/issues
   8. http://openhatch.org/projects/arkOS
   9. https://openhatch.org/projects/Navit
  10. http://lists.openhatch.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
  11. http://protagoni.st/post/62778355469/on-xoxo-and-diversity-or-i-swear-this-is-not-just-a
  12. http://arandomurl.com/2013/10/24/problems-getting-started-in-open-source.html
  13. http://www.reddit.com/r/openhatch
  14. http://htmlpad.org/oh-newsletter-201311/edit
  15. http://htmlpad.org/oh-newsletter-201311
  16. http://lists.openhatch.org/mailman/listinfo/publicity
  17. https://openhatch.org/blog/tag/newsletter
  18. https://www.facebook.com/openhatch
  19. https://plus.google.com/115325121477337042677
  20. http://identi.ca/openhatch
  21. http://twitter.com/openhatch